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1. What time is it?: 9:42PM2. Full name: If you don't know, ask someone who does. 3. What are you most afraid of?: Never starting a real career.4. What is the most recent film you have seen in a theatre?: Failure to Launch5. Have you ever seen a ghost?: Maybe.6. Place of birth: State College, PA7. Favorite New food: Chicken Fajitas, I think. 8. Ever been to Alaska: No9. Ever been toilet papering rolling: What kind of a redneck question is that?10. Loved someone so much it made you cry: I've had that song stuck in my head for about a week...11. Been in a car accident: Both in and out of a car.12. Croutons or bacon bits: On a good day, both.13. Favorite day of the week: Wednesday or Thursday.14. Favorite Restaurant: My new favorite is the Texas Roadhouse.15. Favorite Flower: Um, tulips, lilies or roses...16. Favorite sport to watch: baseball17. Favorite Drink: White Russian18. Favorite ice cream: B & J's New York Superfudge Chunk.19. Disney or Warner Brothers: Generally speaking, WB.20. Favorite fast food restaurant: Taco Bell, I guess.21. What color is your bedroom carpet?: Hardwood floor.22 How many times you failed your driver's test?: You don't read this blog, do you?23. Before this one, from whom did you get your last e-mail: This wasn't an e-mail but my last one was from a certain woman... 24. What do you do most often when you are bored?: Watch TV, surf the web, read and, of course, do surveys such as this.25. Bedtime: this week it'll be sometime between 7:30 and 8:00am...26. Who will respond to this e-mail the quickest?: as I said, not an e-mail so no one will...27. Who is the person you sent this to that is least likely to respond?: Hello? Pay attention!28. Who is the person that you are most curious to see their responses?: virtually anyone's. 29. Favorite T.V. show: Currently either Lost or Smallville30. Last person you went to dinner with: My parents.31. Ford or Chevy?: Couldn't care less.32. What are you listening to right now?: the computer hum.33. What are your favorite colors?: Blue and maybe orange34. How many tattoos do you have?: None. Zip. Nada.35. How many pets do you have?: My kitty, Susie.36. Which came first the chicken or the egg?: As dinosaurs laid them, the egg. 37. What would you like to accomplish before you die?: A published novel and a career in something.38. How many people are you sending this e-mail to?: Not an e-mail. Do you have ADHD?

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